♥ Luke's Recitation ♥

Our homeschool group has recitation once a month, many times with a theme such as Bible memorization, book reports, musical, etc.  This gives the kids a chance to practice being in front of a group with memorization and speech skills.  Luke has been working on memorizing the Old Testament books of the Bible for a few months now.  We just informally work on it throughout the week and especially on the way to church adding a few more once he has mastered the ones preceding it. 

He was supposed to be able to finally recite the entire Old Testament books at recitation this past Tuesday at homeschool group but we had to miss because of sickness.  And that just happened to be the last one for this school year.

So, I told him I would video him and he could recite them to blogland.  :) 

Had this been Colt or even Joy (1st and 2nd child), they would have been dressed for the occasion before I would have ever started recording.  But as they say, you get really laid back by the time the third and children thereafter come along.  It's true....Luke had his bath, put on his pajamas last night before we decided to do this, and I'm not worrying about it.   He's reciting in his pajamas, wiggling all the time.  :)

Now it's time to start working on those New Testament books!  Thanks for being his audience!  :)

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For those that stopped by, I was wondering if you could do me a favor?  I've had someone recently and someone a few months ago tell me that they had trouble reading the text on my page....that it was small and blended into the background.  It doesn't appear that way to me or to any computer in my house.  I've asked a few blogging friends and they say it looks clear and readable to them.  So I'm wondering what you see?  Is it clear and readable or are you having trouble reading the text in some way?  (Thanks for your input).  :)

♥ Tammy ♥

Made Me Smile

Every once in awhile I see a video on yahoo news that just makes me smile.

This one did.

I love our military!  I'm so thankful for what they do everyday for us. They sacrifice so much being away from their families. So, it just makes me smile to see that they can take a moment to have a little playful fun. The guy at the 2:31 mark just cracks me up. :)

I had to share a smile with you for the day! Enjoy! (And don't forget to thank a soldier and pray for him or her and their family)!





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Don't forget to come over and join me for Pinned it, Made it! Monday. I will have the linky set up late Sunday night. I will come back later with the guidelines. It's all about pinning something on Pinterest, following through with making it or trying it, then posting about it and linking up with me on Mondays! It will be fun!

  Thank you for stopping by! :)

Our Little English Major :)

This is what our littlest student learned over the summer. :)

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Be sure and come back tomorrow for Faithful Friday, and even better, we'd love for you to participate! And remember Monday is the auction fundraiser hosted here on my blog to help the Bryant family who is bringing home their 8 year old daughter, Leiney Grace, from China!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a great day! :)

Joy's Dance Recital - (Video Marathon)!

Joy's dance recital was last weekend and I've had this post ready for a few days, but with all the news about China, it got pushed aside a little. Her recital was called "The Hottest Ticket in Town".

This is a snapshot Jason took of Joy after 13 hours of dancing/costume changing/waiting. (The mountain dew kept her energized I guess)! That's the flowers Grandmama and Pop brought her.



I've had some people ask about seeing Joy dance, so I finally figured out how to get the videos compressed enough to get them on here. And of course, I'd LOVE to show them to you! lol! They were already not that great quality because we were up a little ways in the auditorium. They are blurry, but you can still make it out somewhat. **WARNING** This is one of those posts where proud Mama pulls out the videos to make you sit through, except you have the option of clicking away! :)

This first one is her solo. She danced to Selena Gomez's, Tell Me Something I Don't Know. You can't see her ending because of where we were sitting and filming and where she ended the dance, but it's just the last couple of measures anyway.



This next one is from the Willy Wonka ballet play. This is where Violet wants the gum from the gumball machine and finally gets her way and chews the gum and blows up into a ball! So cute! Joy is one of the gumballs.



And this one is her tap dance. They danced to "Good Morning", from the musical, Singing in the Rain.



And if that's not enough, and you'd like to see more, Joy would be happy for you to come over to her blog where she has posted her jazz dance (race car themed, Hot Hot Hot Hot) and production number (Spanish themed Havana Heat) on today's post.


Thanks for stopping by! :)